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Long term effects of Stuxnet are unclear. In the short term, it was a huge win in delaying the programme and sending a message that even air gapped systems are
by axg11 4y ago
Long term effects of Stuxnet are unclear. In the short term, it was a huge win in delaying the programme and sending a message that even air gapped systems are at risk. In the long term, Stuxnet put the programme and every adversary on notice that they should increase focus on security practices.
- moistly 4y agoAnd yet we leave our own infrastructure connected to the internet. It’s like we want our power grid to fail, our dams to release a flood, our water supply to be over-floridated.
- eru 4y agoDidn't we just talk about how Stuxnet showed that even airgaps aren't 100% secure? The benefits of being connected to the Internet are the same as before; but the benefits of the airgap are smaller than we expected them to be. Hence we would expect our preferred trade-off to swing in favour of more connections?
- moistly 4y agoAnd the lock on your house isn’t particularly effective either, yet we don’t see you going on vacation whilst leaving the door fully open.
- eru 4y agoIf there was a high chance I would come home to my house being devastated whether I lock up or not, I would probably not bother locking up.
- daniel-cussen 4y agoI live in Chile. In practice you would lock up (and even set up your lights with an endemic light timer so it looks like you're home) and the alternative is homelessness. Actual homelessness, not eviction. You still pay rent, only there's no roof over your head. You'd be homeless, not evicted. The ruins of your former house are a better home than the street. Shit in the corner, rebuild, that sort of thing. In practice you would not leave for vacations and for sure exercise right to bear arms, that's what's up. The police will ALWAYS tell you you're in safe hands with them don't get a gun in urban areas. They'll say it'll be used against you. I guess it could if you're a wimp. Yeah I'm such a wimp, the thug will walk right up while I do nothing but hold the gun, suck the bullets out of the barrel with his powerful lungs, and spit them out back at me!
- daniel-cussen 4y agoDude they should diminish fluoride by a factor of ten.
- daniel-cussen 4y agoAll the much more sweeter when they get it. The list of countries America tells other countries to treat poorly is getting kinda long. So I could actually rattle them off the top of my head once: Myanmar Sudan Iran North Korea Cuba That last one is a funny one, the original pariah. But like you can't go to these countries for contests, or accept prize money there, so for instance the Rubik's Cube championship can't be in Cuba, because Americans who are damned good at it can't win. And it wasn't a very large amount of land. Sudan yeah, that was the biggest country in Africa before it split. But it was remote from where I was in Chile, much more than half the world away. Never met a Sudanese, nothing. Now it's like Belarus, Russia, China soon, North Korea, Cuba always always, South Sudan, uh, Yemen, there's more...Libya for a while, like EVERYONE EVERYONE IS SANCTIONED. When everybody's sanctioned, nobody's sanctioned. America is sanctioned.
- halJordan 4y agoThis is a pretty ironic view. What you're regretting losing only ever existed during the unipolar moment anyway. The era preceding it was literally called the Cold War. Emphasis on War. Now that the unipolar moment is ending you're blaming America for sticking to its guns and refusing to do business with countries that agitate for its downfall or destruction?